Jane Sullivan laments the lack of Australians in a hymn to female crime writers
Turning Page column, Spectrum – The Age, 30 July 2016, p. 21. Sisters in Crime gets a big rap! Click here to read.
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Crime with a ‘Mid-West’ Gothic edge: Q&A with Tiffany McDaniel
Q&A. Robyn Walton, national co-convenor of Sisters in Crime Australia, quizzed US author Tiffany McDaniel about her new novel, The Summer that Melted Everything (Scribe, Melbourne, 2016). Hi Tiffany. Congratulations on the publication of your extraordinary novel. As our website readers are fans of crime fiction, I’m going to direct our email conversation towards the …
Booktopia deal on Davitt Books
Booktopia, Australian pre-eminent online bookseller,which is sponsoring this year’s Sisters in Crime’s Davitt Awards for Best Crime Books, is offering a discount for most books on the Davitt long-list below. Part of the sale price goes to support Sisters in Crime. Just click here so that Booktopia knows we sent you. Davitt Awards – Long List 2016 …
Death in the Faculty: Crime & Academia
This Melbourne Sisters in Crime event on 22 July 2016 was a sell-out – and included a big turn out from the academy, with at least five professors in attendance. The debate about the long-standing relationship between crime fiction and academia was led by Sue Turnbull, a Professor in Media and Communications, University of Wollongong …
A ‘long shortlist’ for Sisters in Crime’s 16th Davitt Awards for best crime books
Sisters in Crime has announced its shortlist for its 16th Davitt Awards for best crime books but, at 28 books, the list is rather long. “The reason for such a long shortlist is simple,” says Jacqui Horwood, the Davitt Judges wrangler. “There are just so many outstanding debut books. The crime writing sorority is bursting …
Solved! The case of Mary Fortune, the pioneering crime writer who vanished
Lucy Sussex, a literary historian, novellist and a long-time member of Sisters in Crime, has solved the mystery of where pioneering crime writer, Mary Fortune, is buried. Jason Steger, The Age’s literary editor, reports: (Courtesy of Fairfax Media.) Sometimes the biggest mysteries have the simplest solutions. That’s certainly the truth in the case of the …
Tinder dry fiction: Q&A with Jane Harper
Q&A. Jane Harper has had a meteoric rise as a crime novelist. Last year, she won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and, The Dry, her first novel, was published by Pan Macmillan in June. Rights have already been sold to over twenty territories and it has been optioned for a film …
Chiller Thriller: Q&A with Ann Turner
Q&A. Ann Turner, author of Out of the Ice (Simon & Schuster) tells Robyn Walton, a Sisters in Crime Australia national co-convenor, what makes her Antarctic thriller so chilling. Hi Ann. There’s a lot going on in your second novel, Out of the Ice, and a number of wide-ranging, serious issues are raised. I can’t …
Lucky Me! Q&A with Saba Kapur
Q&A. National Co-convenor Robyn Walton talked to Saba Kapur, author of Lucky Me (Amberjack Publishing, New York, 2016). Lucky Me is a crime mystery for Young Adult readers and a debut novel for Saba, a Melbourne university student. It was launched at Readings bookstore in Hawthorn Melbourne in June 2016. Hi Saba. Let’s look at the …
Dead Men Don’t Order Flake – Deep Fried Crime
Dead Men Don’t Order Flake by Sisters in Crime member Sue Williams was launched by author Angela Savage, another member, before a large and enthusiastic crowd of family, friends and fans on 7 June at Readings Hawthorn. Here’s what Angela had to say: If there was a prize for best book title of the year, …